Clarks Nutrition and Natural Foods Markets

Gluten Free

What does following a gluten-free diet mean? That you're embarking on an easy diet with a wide range of health-promoting effects. Instead of dwelling on what you’re giving up, consider that you’re going to enjoy a whole new world of delicious food options to meet your special dietary needs. You’ll be eating seasonally, choosing more fresh fruits and vegetables, focusing on meats, seafood, poultry, legumes, lentils, corn, and rice, and discovering fascinating ancient grains such as quinoa, amaranth, and millet. You’ll be able to eat potatoes, eggs, most cheeses, even chocolate (!)—and enjoy them without guilt because you’ll be taking good care of your body. In fact, you’ll probably end up eating—and feeling—better than ever!

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We carry a large variety of gluten free items, the brands listed below represent just some of the offerings we carry

Raw Foods

“Raw” is all the rage these days, but what does it mean to eat raw? And is it possible to get enough protein and other nutrients while following a raw diet?

Raw foods are those that have not been heated above 108°F to 118°F

Raw, defined

Most raw foodists eat only plant-based (vegan) foods, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes, and seaweed. Raw foods are those that have not been heated above 108°F to 118°F, depending on who you talk to. The logic behind this is that many of the nutrients in foods are extremely sensitive to heat. This is especially true of the water-soluble vitamins, like the B-vitamins, folate, and vitamin C. As Katie McDonald, a raw food chef and certified Holistic Health Coach in Rhode Island puts it, “The more you do to a food, the less it does for you.”

Raw food advocates also look to the enzyme content of raw foods, saying that cooking destroys delicate enzymes that could otherwise go toward improving the digestion of the foods you’re eating.

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In addition to our always fresh produce, we carry many more raw foods throughout our stores. Look for these brands and our Raw Foods section for more.

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Kids Who Exercise Before School May Focus Better

According to a study in Preventive Medicine Reports, kids who participated in a physical activity program before school spent more time on-task during the first part of the school day. The study included 77 third and fourth graders from two schools (one private and one public) in the US. Two days a week for five weeks, the students participated in a 15 to 20 minute before-school running/walking club while wearing pedometers. Then, for the first 45 minutes of school, the students were monitored for “on-task behaviors” (listening to directions and working quietly at their desks) and “off-task behaviors” (breaking rules, being disruptive, not participating, or staring into space). Researchers found that:

On the days students participated in the running/walking club, their engagement in on-task behaviors was 14 to 15% higher than on the days they didn’t participate in the running/walking club.

These findings suggest that physical activity may play an important part in kids’ in-class behavior. Unfortunately, this research comes at a time when many schools are ramping down their physical activity programs due to a lack of funding and increasing pressures to focus solely on academic performance. So, while research like this stresses the importance of school day physical activity, access to programs such as this may not be readily available. But there are ways to take matters into your own hands: if your child’s school doesn’t offer before-school activities, consider walking or cycling to school with your kids, or joining with other parents to organize a pick-up dodgeball game at the bus stop a few mornings each week.

Source: Preventive Medicine Reports

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